Canard
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Canard may refer to:
- Nicolas-François Canard (1750–1833), French mathematician and economist
- Canard (aeronautics), a small wing mounted on the front of some aircraft, which can be beneficial or detrimental depending on the design of the plane and its intended use
- Canard (dynamical systems), a phenomenon in some slow-fast dynamical systems referring to high sensitivity of a periodic orbit to a parameter, used in some models of neuronal spiking
- Canard, Nova Scotia, a group of hamlets and villages on the west coast of Nova Scotia in Kings County
- Duck, the common name for a number of aquatic species in the Anatidae family of birds, found in fresh and salt water, not a monophyletic group but a form taxon
- Hoax, an unfounded or false, deliberately misleading fabrication, a false report, also called a "canard"
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